November 2015 fishing field day Surf Casting and Angling Club of WA (Inc.) PO Box 2834, Malaga WA 6944 ABN 29 925 237 020 Telephone 0459 183 375 Email surfcast@iinet.net.au Club Web page http://www.surfcasters.iinet.net.au Kalbarri house www.surfcasters.iinet.net.au/kalbarrihouse.html Cervantes/Jurien, 14/15 November 2015. Synopsis. The November 2015 field day was spread from Green Head to Sandy Cape to Jurien to Cervantes with most persons fishing the Hill River area, and South Point at Jurien. Weather conditions at this venue were good to very good except too good. The expected SW sea breeze in mid/late afternoon did not materialize, resulting in tailor schools not coming close in to The Club owns an air conditioned holiday house at Kalbarri which is available for rent to the public and club members at competitive rates. Link is above. to shore to feed, and the following morning SE winds with nearly flat seas. The result was ranged from fair to zero bags with tailor catches predominant and small numbers of various other species. The away venue gave pleasant fishing conditions with most getting a small feed of fish. For the field day the Surfcasters that departed the weigh-in, some had nil smiles and some had big grins with lots of kidding about things that went right or wrong. The trip. The sign on at the Cervantes Service Station was at 12:30 pm Saturday 14 November with lines down at 2pm with fishing through until Sunday 15 November with the usual lines up at 10am with the weigh-in conducted at 11:30 am at the sign-on location. A total of 17 SCAC anglers including two Juniors came to the away sign-on. Gary Parkinson, Sri Srigandan, Victor and Slavka Schilo, George Belin, Peet and Sandra Wessels, Shane Wignell, George Holman, Pat McKeown, Martin Wearmouth with sons Thomas and Christian, Ron Thomas, Eddie Korin (that s a face that has been out of state for the past few years) and Peter Osborne. Pat, Gary and Sri came up on Friday and advised weed was not a problem. Although 4 seniors and two juniors did not attend the weigh-in as they had zero or one small fish, it was still good to see a couple of newcomers get some fish, Sri Srigandan, and George Belin. Their fish were not huge but quality tailor with a maximum size a little over 0.5kg. plus George also managed a herring. The majority of Surfcasters fished the mouth of the Hill River. As Fremantle club were out in force and they start their field day at 6am, most of the spots we normally fish along th e stretch south of Hill River were already crowded out. Martin also tried the mouth of the Hill River Saturday afternoon for black bream but did not manage to repeat what he had done in the past. He managed only one tailor with Shane catching two tailor and a whiting. Sandra managed a tailor, 3 herring and a whiting with Peet having a bag comprising 3 tailor and 2 herring Victor and Slavka did their bit at Jurien South Point. Slavka retained her bragging rights over Victor in that her heaviest tailor was 0.03 kg bigger that Victor's and her total bag weight was 0.02 kg than Victor's. They also had a first experience of landing a small stingray. Slavka was enamoured with the cute look of this animal with its bulging eyes. Careful handling enabled them to undertake a catch and release. November 2015 Fishing field day report. Page 1
George Holman fished at one of his favourite spots nominally west of the car park access to the Hill River. Like all of us George worked hard at catching tailor and managed to get four, plus a pike. However his highlight was later in the afternoon when his rod all of a sudden bent double, his reel screamed and with care and playing carefully, allowing the fish to run and not putting lock-up drag on, he landed a great little spanish mackerel of 3.1 kg gilled and gutted. This gave him the heaviest bag of fish of 5.14kg, (excluding sharks) George Holman s surprize catch - a Spanish mackerel Ron Thomas' example of a great tailor Ron Thomas went north and fished Sandy Cape at a place called the Kingy hole. The hole was full of weed and he had to cast long and fish well on the outside of the weed. He managed to land 4 tailor but lost more trying to drag them in through the weed. Ron had the heaviest tailor of the field day at 1.1kg gilled and gutted. He also captured a whiting and a dart and also managed a small shark, (we think a bronzy) where Ron immediately bled the shark. He bought the fish to the weigh-in table gutted with fins, head, and tail removed where this fish weighed in at 3.95kg. For those that wondered why this amount of dressing down, it is to significantly improve the eating qualities of this specimen. Ron s bag was the heaviest being 7.08 kg including his shark I fished just south of Dog beach point. Couple of tailor well before dark and anticipated getting a good tailor run as it got dark but it did not happen. I fished till 10pm but for the next 3 hours only managed a pike. Like most, the afternoon gave blowies striping the mulie bait within 5 or 10 minutes of putting in the water. After dark the blowies switched off and the undersize tarwhine switched on. Pleasant evening, nice and cool but like most effort gave results that were virtually fishless. Following morning I got up early and went up to Green Head. On berleying up immediately captured one, then a second herring and thought I was going to bag out. Nope those two fish, plus a wrasse, was it. This was the heaviest bag of fish, being 1.75 kg after Ron and George and was symptomatic of the low level of catches for this field day. As a further statistic on the low level of captures, compared to last month at this venue, Victor and Slavka, George Belin and Peet managed bags in the 1 to 1.5 kg range. In summary fish and various species, 9 species across all the participants, showed up as expected, but not in the quantities we normally experience for this venue. While Perth sweltered, we enjoyed a relaxing and comfortable bit of beach fishing. Local. Only one Surfcaster fished local, Michael Pisano put in a solid 4 hour session on Saturday afternoon/ evening at Floreat beach with nil result. He encountered similar conditions we had further north with no sea breeze, calm seas and no tailor coming into the coastline to feed at dusk. An A for effort but a 0 for fish captures. Hope to see you at our December field day at the White Hills/Preston areas. High expectations these locations will provide us with schools of quality tailor and other miscellaneous species. Tight lines, Field Day Officer, Peter Osborne November 2015 Fishing field day report. Page 2
Catch results and points for November 2015 Field Day Angler Weight Species Fish Points Ron Thomas 7.08kg 3 9 120.8 George Holman 5.14kg 3 6 101.4 Peter Osborne 1.75kg 4 6 77.5 Peet Wessels 1.51kg 3 6 65.1 George Belin 1.45kg 3 5 64.5 Sandra Wessels 0.83kg 3 5 58.3 Victor Schilo 1.03kg 2 3 50.3 Slavka Schilo 1.07kg 2 3 40.7 Shane Wignell 0.77kg 2 3 37.7 Sri Srigandan 0.69kg 1 2 36.9 Martin Wearmouth 0.41kg 1 1 34.1 Eddie Korin 20 Gary Parkinson 20 Glen Wong 20 Michael Pisano 20 Pat McKeown 20 Christian Wearmouth 10 Thomas Wearmouth 10 Sportsperson of the Year section winners for November 2015 Points include Field day and November General meeting points. Species weighed at the November field day were tailor, herring, tarwhine, pike, spanish mackerel, whiting, wrasse, shark. Best scale fish George Holman Spanish Mackerel 3.10kg Best bag of scale fish George Holman Mixed bag 5.14kg Best shark Ron Thomas Shark 3.95kg Best bag including shark Ron Thomas Mixed bag 7.08kg Field day section winners for November Best scale fish George Holman Spanish Mackerel 3.10kg Best bag of scale fish Peter Osborne Mixed bag 1.75kg Best shark Ron Thomas Shark 3.95kg Best bag including shark Ron Thomas Mixed bag 7.08kg November 2015 Fishing field day report. Page 3
Tailor Herring Pike Whiting Spanish Mackerel Shark Tarwhine Wrasse Total Catches on November 2015 Field Day Species # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Number 1 3 1 5 Sandra Wessels Total weight 0.41 0.34 0.08 0.83 Number 3 2 1 6 Peet Wessels Total weight 1.26 0.19 0.06 1.51 Number 4 4 1 9 Ron Thomas Total weight 2.61 0.52 3.95 7.08 1.10 Number 2 2 Sri Srigandan Total weight 0.69 0.69 Number 4 1 1 6 George Holman Total weight 1.88 0.16 3.10 5.14 Number 1 1 Martin Wearmouth Total weight 0.41 0.41 Shane Wignell Total weight 0.65 0.12 0.77 Number 2 2 1 1 6 Peter Osborne Total weight 1.20 0.22 0.17 0.16 1.75 Victor Schilo Total weight 0.92 0.11 1.03 0.51 Slavka Schilo Total weight 0.94 0.13 1.07 0.54 Number 3 1 1 5 George Belin Total weight 1.14 0.08 0.23 1.45 Michael Pisano Thomas Wearmouth Christian Wearmouth Glen Wong Eddie Korin Gary Parkinson Pat McKeown Total number 26 14 2 3 1 1 1 1 49 Total weight 12.11 1.59 0.33 0.26 3.1 3.95 0.23 0.16 21.73 Species # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total November 2015 Fishing field day report. Page 4
Field Day top scores for 2015/16 Total scores are calculated automatically by the field day scoring spreadsheet including November Field day and General meeting. Competition Rules section 2.4.5 specifies only the best 11 months out of 12 will count at the end of the competition year. The winners will be announced at the Presentation of Trophies in June 2016, and adjusted scores will be published after that. Names with equal scores are sorted alphabetically. Name Points Rank Name Points Rank Name Points Rank Peet Wessels 923.2 1 Sri Srigandan 208.1 12 Scott Williamson 84.4 23 Peter Osborne 893.1 2 Ron Thomas 181.2 13 Dean Stewart 82.6 24 Sandra Wessels 704.9 3 Mark Hansen 172.5 14 Jamie Reilly 75.7 25 Mark Nurse 646.6 4 Michael Pisano 155.3 15 David Maxted 69.6 26 Shane Wignell 546.6 5 Victor Schilo 132.3 16 George Belin 64.9 27 Theo Van Niekerk 423.5 6 Ian Taggart 115.5 17 Glen Wong 51.8 28 Martin Wearmouth 394.4 7 Sarah Wignell 114.1 18 Lee Yongli 40.0 29 George Holman 390.4 8 Slavka Schilo 112.1 19 Thomas Wearmouth 21.0 30 Gary Parkinson 353.7 9 Chris Gaston 112.1 20 Geoff Raftis 20.0 31 Daniel Bell 259.6 10 Pat McKeown 106.7 21 Christian Wearmouth 10.0 32 Paul Terpkos 240.8 11 Nic Terpkos 89.7 22 Peter Butland 10.0 33 Field Day sections 2015/16 Up to and including November 2015 Field Day. 1A Best scale fish (1st six months) Gary Parkinson Pink snapper 7.64kg June 1B Best scale fish (2nd six months) George Holman Spanish Mackerel 3.10kg November 2 Most meritorious fish To be awarded by Committee 3 Best Shark (4.5kg min) 4 Best Mulloway (2.0kg min) 5 Best Tailor (1.0kg min) Mark Nurse Tailor 1.18kg May 6 Best Salmon (3kg min) Martin Wearmouth Salmon 4.48kg June 7 Best Skipjack Trevally (0.5 kg min) Peet Wessels Skipjack Trevally 1.67kg August 8 Best Mackerel (2kg min) George Holman Spanish Mackerel 3.10kg November 9 Best Yellowtail Kingfish, Samson or Amberjack Sandra Wessels Yellowtail Kingfish 4.41kg August 10 Best scale fish (other than above) Peet Wessels Baldchin Groper 1.84kg May 11 Best bag of scale fish Peet Wessels Mixed bag 19.08kg June 12 Best bag of Mulloway (2 fish min) 13 Best bag of Tailor (2 fish min) George Holman Tailor 4.43kg October 14 Best fish on single handed rod (4kg line max) Mark Hansen Herring 0.12kg August 15 Best fish caught on fly rod 16 Best fish caught on single handed rod (4kg line max) and a soft plastic lure Mark Hansen Wrasse 0.25kg August 17 Best fish caught on single handed rod (4kg line max) and a hard body lure Field day spreadsheet developer, Terry Fuller November 2015 Fishing field day report. Page 5